About Asteria, from BoardGameGeek:
Asteria is a strategic level card wargame in which two players compete for the domination of the galaxy through military, commercial, and technological objectives.
Using multi-purpose cards, collect resources to enhance your military power, research new technologies, and explore new areas of the galaxy in a game with great variety and replayability.
Each Asteria card incorporates the 4X (Extract, Expand, Explore, and Exterminate) elements. Choose which of the four sides of the card to play on one of the open planets to determine the effect and military power being deployed.
Use combinations of cards to modify plans with technologies and cards that rotate others already in play.
Play your own way to earn points by fulfilling various objectives and emerge victorious with the Galaxy in your hands in Asteria!
This 4X card game is designed for 2 players and features 54 multi-functional cards that ensure each game is thrilling and unique.
-description from the publisher
